deleting duplications of a db

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August 13th, 2004, 01:28 PM

iroosma

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deleting duplications of a db

I am joining two databases and the result has many duplications in it. Using SQL, how do I delete the duplications.

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August 13th, 2004, 03:57 PM

Mandrill

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Not quite sure what you mean by joining two databases. If you mean importing data from tables in one db to corresponding tables in another db you will need to create a new temp table and insert a select distinct of your original data.

Code:

INSERT INTO temptable
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM OriginalTable

Drop the old table and rename the new.

HTH
Darrell

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